Struggling Groups...

I went ahead an estimated group numbers.  They may not be entirely right but it's a general idea...

Tiny Kats: 13 Adults 4 Pups
Willows: 7 adults 4 Pups
Jumaa: 5 Adults 7 Pups
Phantoms: 6(4) Adults 7 Pups
Zippers: 3 Adults 9 Pups
Oreos: 3 Adults 8 Pups
Comets: 3 Adults 8 Pups

Not sure on the Reapers exactly... ^^'

Maybe we should consider that most of these pups are likely to die... O.O

Wow, three groups who need adults big time. XD

Adding Mystery and Solstice to the Oreos would have 5 adults... But that's still pretty low.

Holy Scorpions! O.O Didn't realize most of the mobs were that low on numbers, lol. I seriously thought the Jumaa and Willows were large, it turns out the Tiny Kats are actually the largest and most stable. Considering the rest of the mobs are perilously low on adults, the risk of more pups being susceptible to predation would no doubt be incredibly high. I'm planning not to introduce any more characters but many of my characters will go through dire situations.

I'm gonna go through dispersed characters of members that have left and bring them back to boost numbers... Like Kusuma and Meerkats.  c:

Or... we could always bump up pup ages by a month or so. I know this would be going against everything we should do, but the groups got big once right? But the pup situation is rather dire... I say any pups that have not been adopted by ?tomorrow? should be killed.

That would be a good idea.

I think it's funny how DW is behind compared to Linklu... lol...

Characters I'm considering... Tetzul, Hershey, Butterscotch, Sugar, Shasta, Romeo, Streak, Kumi, Suri, Faeya, Tisca, Lithium, Flurry, and Fantasy...

Then my old character, Digger.  :]

Linklu candidates are... Well, most of my characters there have ties of some sort... Bloodbath Graveyards... Dustdevil Weathers... Rip Graveyards... Microbee and Marobene Graveyards... Maybe bring back Sneaky Paw...?

If we want some drama... 
SOPHIE.  Say she survives in her plot or something... >3
I have several Shadow Deaths but I'm not sure which ones to bring over...

Then there are also several Savages I could bring over that haven't been adopted yet: Dread, Trashcan, Graffiti, Horror, Ghost of the Moon...

Ugh, now I have too many ideas.  But I'll go for it temporarily~

Also, I could attempt to email Kusuma. I droned over google for 1+ hours looking for active meerkat roleplays to advertise on besides our own. I found none.

Also, on the KMP website, after 3 months of age meerkats are considered teenagers, and are then capable of babysitting and fighting, as they are closer to being full grown. So we shouldn't count members over 3 months as useless pups.

But, we should get everyone's opinions about bumping up pup age. I would say one to two months, but we need every opinion.

Midnights are dangerously low as well at the moment... I've just been following Pancake's post on the thread they have 3 adults including Makuta and about 9 pups (Two are over 4 months old though). Maybe we could break the lists down into Adults, Teens and Pups to help analyse the current distribution.

Here's the Midnights using that list-

Adults-
Spitfire
Makuta
Teetsie

Teenagers-
Katsumi
Latika

Pups-
The remainder of the group

So there's five meerkats capable of babysitting and fighting, but only 2 of lactating.

This is how I like my mob structure as an example:

PancakeofSunnySand wrote:

TOTAL: 24

Note: Many of these are up for adoption.  Name may be changed upon request.

Dominant Female
RPSVF023 Puncture (Pancake)

Dominant Male
RPCDM??? Goblin (Pancake)

Subordinate Females
RPSVF007 Parasite (Ratties)
RPSVF008 Disease
RPSVF011 Nettle
RPSVF020 Dread
RPSVF025 Orc (Pancake)
RPSVF028 Shade (Night)
RPSVF035 Cheyanne (Ratties)
RPSVF038 Gina (Pancake)
RPSVF041 Anasazi (Night)
RPSVF043 Hopewell (Megan)
 
Subordinate Males
RPSVM005 Massacre (Ratties)
RPSVM013 Trashcan
RPSVM014 Grafitti 
RPSVM019 Trigger (Ratties)
RPSVM022 Horror 
RPSVM024 Troll 
RPSVM027 Grunge 
RPSVM029 Ghost of the Moon
RPSVM030 Lakota (Night)
RPSVM039 Tony
RPSVM042 Chinook (Pancake)
RPSVM044 Ute

Juveniles
none

Pups
RPSV?048 Virus (Ratties)
RPSV?049 Bacteria (Night)
RPSV?050 Protozoa
RPSVF051 Maggot (Pancake)

Due Dates
 TBA

Yeah, I'm way too organized~

With Varjack in the Midnight mob, that should be one more adult.

Actually no, I think that works quite well Pancake. A little bit of over-organization never hurt anybody. (:

Btw, I also list the pups in a litter under 'Due Dates'... Like this:

Due Dates
Someone+Someone's litter is due 00/00/Y0

• Blah, female (Nobody)
  
• Blah Blah, male (Nobody)
  
• Blah Blah Blah, female (Nobody)
  
• Blah Blah Blah Blah, male (Nobody)
  

YAY

I agree with Stormy.

And I do have one male dispersed with the Zippers. Dasher, a male I brought in long ago... Maybe I could bring him back some time.

Nice coding Pancacke =)